Our series of webinars focussing on the research of our seven flex funded projects which were awarded in 2019 has now concluded.
All webinar sessions are available to view on our YouTube channel.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lindsey Allen, Research Project Coordinator.
25 February: GRid flexibility by Electrifying Energy Network
25 February: GRid flexibility by Electrifying Energy Network
Speaker: Xin Zhang (Cranfield University)
This session is available to view, please use passcode: R5@Kskd1
Project Summary
The project will investigate the electricity network infrastructure for the electrification of airports with electric aircrafts (EAs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The project aims to include electrified aviation into a whole energy systems approach. An electricity network model will be developed for airports, by considering temporal power consumption, and charging requirements of EAs and EVs. Electricity network operating strategies will be studied with electric charging schemes, and to explore airport energy networks that interact with power girds. A feasibility study will be conducted to investigate demand side response through ‘airport to grid’ using aggregated EAs and EVs.
Further information on the project is available.
Our series of webinars focussing on the research of our seven flex funded projects which were awarded in 2019 has now concluded.
All webinar sessions are available to view on our YouTube channel.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lindsey Allen, Research Project Coordinator.
5 February: Decarbonisation of energy systems of South Asian developing economies through regional collaborations
This session is available to view, please use passcode: wF8@8C?m
Speaker: Kumar Biswajit Debnath (Heriot- Watt University)
Project Summary
South Asian countries such as India, Nepal and Bhutan are currently developing plans for increasing renewable energy penetration. However, other rapidly developing countries, such as Bangladesh, appear to be moving towards a fossil fuel-based model of development. Recent policy change in India has opened the avenue towards regional energy collaboration between Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan. The objective of this research is to explore the potential of electricity import from India, Nepal and Bhutan from renewables to aid the decarbonisation of Bangladesh’s rapidly accelerating electricity sector.
Further information on the project is available.
Our series of webinars focussing on the research of our seven flex funded projects which were awarded in 2019 has now concluded.
All webinar sessions are available to view on our YouTube channel.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lindsey Allen, Research Project Coordinator.
30 November: Whole system analysis of advanced thermal energy storage technologies in future UK energy networks
30 November: Whole system analysis of advanced thermal energy storage technologies in future UK energy networks
(14:45 – 15:45)
The session is available to view
Speakers: Adriano Sciacovelli (University of Birmingham), Hossein Ameli (Imperial College), Alejandro Gallego Schmid (Manchester University)
Project Summary
The overarching aim of this project is to develop fundamental understanding of the role and impact of thermal energy storage (TES) technologies in future UK low carbon energy networks. The focus of this research will be on advanced TES: latent heat TES based on phase change materials (PCMs) and reversible reaction based thermochemical storage (TST). We will investigate the role, environmental impacts and value of TES in future heat and electricity networks, facilitating TES technological development, business models and inform key decision makers.
Further information on the project is available.
Our series of webinars focussing on the research of our seven flex funded projects which were awarded in 2019 has now concluded.
All webinar sessions are available to view on our YouTube channel.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lindsey Allen, Research Project Coordinator.
12 October: EnFORMM (Energy FORecasting and analytics for Market-led Multi-vector networks)
Speakers: Jethro Browell and Thomas Alexander (University of Strathclyde)
Energy FORecasting and analytics for Market-led Multi-vector networks
Project Summary
EnFORMM will develop forecasting tools for efficient operation of multi-vector energy networks and markets. New methods based on data science and machine learning will be developed to predict electricity and gas market prices and volumes, and to quantify risk. A key aspect of EnFORMM is the explicit consideration of interdependencies between energy vectors. This technology will enhance new and existing business models, such as distributed resource aggregators and heat/energy-as-a-serve, in support of the transition to a zero-carbon energy system. EnFORMM is promoting excellence in UK energy research by supporting outstanding Early Career Researchers at the University of Strathclyde.
Further information and project partners
Speaker: Yuankai Bian (Bath University)
Challenges for the changing system inertia and implications to frequency response market design
Our series of webinars focussing on the research of our seven flex funded projects which were awarded in 2019 has now concluded.
All webinar sessions are available to view on our YouTube channel.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lindsey Allen, Research Project Coordinator.
11 September: International Career Journey to UK Energy
(13:00 – 15:00)
The first session in the series featured speakers from Academia and Industry discussing their career journeys, their challenges and successes from leaving their home countries through to establishing careers in UK Energy. The recorded session is available to view for a limited time:
Speakers from Session 1:
Professsor Jihong Wang – Head of Power and Control Systems Research Laboratory, Warwick University
Professor Zhongdong Wong – Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, University of Exeter
Dr Panos Papadopolous – Lecturer at Strathclyde University
Dr Richard Oduro – Research Fellow, Leeds University
Dr John Nwobu – Research Engineer, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Pavlos Trichakis – Baringa Partners
This series of webinars provides an introduction to vehicle to grid (V2G) and smart charging projects and topics, with invited guest speakers from institutions in the UK and overseas.
This series of webinars includes invited talks on topics including Cyber Security and Open Communication Protocols for Smart Charging. All webinars are recorded and can be viewrd on the youtube channel.
View the webinar playlist here. More information on discussions held in our previous webinars on communications protocols are now published in Energy Informatics.
For more information on forthcoming webinars, please visit the website.
The go-to conference for network innovation
Date/Time: 30 -31 October 2019, 08:30 – 16:30
Venue: SEC, Glasgow
The ninth annual Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference at the Scottish Exhibition Centre, Glasgow will be taking place at the end of October 2019.
LCNI is the go-to conference for network innovation and which sets the industry’s progression towards a secure, sustainable and affordable smart grid.
The conference showcases key projects awarded under the NIA and NIC funding mechanisms. This year’s energy focus is on electricity and features empowering new energy innovators as the underpinning theme.
For further information visit the LCNI website, including the current Conference Programme.
Markets and Regulation play a critically important role in facilitating the development of intelligent, efficient, adaptive and open energy networks within which both existing and new energy players can profit. This requires continued innovation in commercial and regulatory frameworks that promotes whole-system efficiency, resilience to withstand major societal, technical and environmental shifts.
This workshop took place on 14th May 2019 at the London campus of the University of Bath. The meeting was attended by representatives from major energy providers, the regulator Ofgem, and academics with expertise in the energy sector.
Aims:
This workshop aimed to support the Hub in setting the broad research direction in Markets and Regulation for energy networks. The intention was to bring together key stakeholders from the energy industry to achieve the following key objectives:
- identify short and long term issues in the current markets and regulation in delivering low cost, low carbon and adaptive energy systems
- prioritise the short-term and long-term market and regulatory issues in the UK
- identify possible approaches for knowledge exchange and for the industry and regulator to support and assess academic research
Topics included:
key limitations with the current commercial and regulatory arrangements – industry and academic views
identifying emerging research challenges, and the future direction of the research for the Hub
identify collaboration strategies between industry and the academic Hub
Outcomes:
The key outcomes from the workshop will form a white paper to inform the government and the industrial and academic communities on the key challenges faced in markets and regulation of future energy networks, and the research approaches proposed to tackle them.
Presentations:
C Harris npower presentation
M Polletti Ofgem presentation
M Pollitt University of Cambridge presentation
N Turvey Western Power Distribution presentation
Full Meeting Notes:
Industrial Partnership Workshop full meeting notes
Event overview
Energy networks are vitally important enablers for the UK energy sector and therefore UK industry and society. Energy networks have a key role to play in achieving the goals set out in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy, most notably in terms of the clean growth aspects. Energy networks exist primarily to exploit and facilitate temporal and spatial diversity in energy production and use and to exploit economies of scale where they exist. The energy trilemma (energy security, environmental impact and social cost) presents many complex interconnected challenges which reach beyond the UK and have huge relevance internationally. These challenges vary considerably from region to region due to historical, geographic, political, economic and cultural reasons. As technology and society changes so do these challenges, and therefore the planning, design and operation of energy networks needs to be revisited and optimised. Current energy networks research and practices do not fully embrace a whole systems approach and is therefore not developing a deep enough understanding of the interconnected and interdependent nature of energy network infrastructure. The recent development of local energy systems and global energy internet bring further uncertainties and challenges to the development of our energy systems.
There is a lack of modelling experience and skills in this area, a lack of replicable models, a shortage of commercial software and a lack of awareness of the value of integrated multi-energy networks in the UK, in order to understand better the linkages among different energy vector networks, ICT, policy, markets, and risk; shape the future energy development; and understand how external factors which may lead to significant change in the way we expect energy networks to be planned and operated. With an excellent line-up of invited participants, this one-day workshop shared current best practices in multi-energy system modelling and discussed how to address the barriers and identifying the innovation gaps.
This invitation-only workshop took place on 12th April 2019 at Imperial College London. It was jointly organised by INCOSE UK Energy Systems Interest Group and the EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub, with support from Energy Systems Catapult and the UK Energy Research Centre.
Presentations:
- Dr N Mansor BEIS presentation (PDF: 0.8MB)
- C Clarke WWU Presentation (PDF: 4.4MB)
- M Barrett UCL presentation (PDF: 5.7MB)
- Dr S Walker Newcastle presentation (PDF: 1.3MB)
- M Qadrdan Cardiff presentation (PDF: 2.6MB)
Full Meeting Notes:
Workshop on Modelling of Integrated Multi-Energy Networks – Full Notes